Andy Warhol - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale London Wednesday, October 4, 2017 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    (i) Sotheby's, London, 27 March 2007, lot 276
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
    (ii) Sotheby's, London, 27 March 2007, lot 274
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • Literature

    (i) Frayda Felman and Claudia Defnedi, Andy Warhol Prints: Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1987, New York, 2003, no. II.192, p. 104 (another example illustrated)
    (ii) Frayda Felman and Claudia Defnedi, Andy Warhol Prints: Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1987, New York, 2003, no. II.195, p. 104 (another example illustrated)

  • Artist Biography

    Andy Warhol

    American • 1928 - 1987

    Andy Warhol was the leading exponent of the Pop Art movement in the U.S. in the 1960s. Following an early career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol achieved fame with his revolutionary series of silkscreened prints and paintings of familiar objects, such as Campbell's soup tins, and celebrities, such as Marilyn Monroe. Obsessed with popular culture, celebrity and advertising, Warhol created his slick, seemingly mass-produced images of everyday subject matter from his famed Factory studio in New York City. His use of mechanical methods of reproduction, notably the commercial technique of silk screening, wholly revolutionized art-making.

    Working as an artist, but also director and producer, Warhol produced a number of avant-garde films in addition to managing the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground and founding Interview magazine. A central figure in the New York art scene until his untimely death in 1987, Warhol was notably also a mentor to such artists as Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat.

     

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2 works; (i-ii) Grapes

(i) signed and numbered 'Andy Warhol 17/50' lower right; further stamped '© Andy Warhol 1979' on the reverse (ii) signed and numbered 'Andy Warhol 17/50' lower left; further stamped '© Andy Warhol 1979' on the reverse
screenprint on Strathmore Bristol paper
each 101.6 x 76.2 cm (40 x 30 in.)
Executed in 1979, each work is number 17 from an edition of 50 plus 10 artist's proofs.

Estimate
£20,000 - 30,000 

Sold for £30,000

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale

London Auction 5 October 2017